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Noun
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And that’s the absurdity of this whole thing.—
NBC news,
NBC news,
26 Apr. 2026 -
That’s the kind of hands-on absurdity that makes a road trip memorable.—
Lauren Schuster,
Miami Herald,
24 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Well, the Premier League table is definitely worth looking at, if only to marvel at its ludicrousness.—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Whoever enlisted Jorma Taccone to direct this deserves a raise, given that the charter member of the Lonely Island understands how to consistently ramp things up to levels of high ridiculousness.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
24 Apr. 2026
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That person — a sunny, daffy, confection of trashy Southern ridiculousness — is just not a mean person.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
14 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Zermelo was pleased that his list of principles, known as ZF, appeared to cleanse the set-theoretic universe of many major paradoxes such as Russell’s.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
29 Apr. 2026
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And in what may seem as a paradox, Maryland last year saw a record number of flash floods, caused by the impacts of climate change, creating periods of long dry spells followed by sudden torrential rainfall.—
Sacoby Wilson,
Baltimore Sun,
29 Apr. 2026
Noun
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During the talk, Brooks joked about the seeming incongruity of teaching courses in emotional realism under the shingle of a public policy school.—
Erin Vanderhoof,
Vanity Fair,
21 Apr. 2026
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There is an incongruity that may be best understood as an irony.—
Aaron Matz,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
Noun
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In fact, he’s leaned into the irony of his story.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
27 Apr. 2026
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However, there was another development that almost compensated, just in the sheer irony of it.—
Mary Gaitskill,
Vogue,
27 Apr. 2026
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Everybody is full of contradictions.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
25 Apr. 2026
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The album is full of strange, brilliant contradictions; Oklou slides masterfully between fun and eccentricity, pump and pathos.—
Sheldon Pearce,
New Yorker,
24 Apr. 2026
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Mathematics can explain why This article is from Proof Positive, our friendly newsletter that explores the joys and peculiarities of math.—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
21 Apr. 2026
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Once a year, the editors of New York set out to make the day-to-day task of living in this city easier for our readers — both those who have been here since birth and those who are still discovering (and adjusting to) its peculiarities and price tags.—
The Editors,
Curbed,
16 Apr. 2026
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